Fact or Fiction: Thursday Dec 21

In 1947, the FBI issued a memo decrying “It’s a Wonderful Life” as communist propaganda.

This is True.

The film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture. This, according to these sources, is a common trick used by Communists.